TREMONT CITY, Ohio — The small village of Tremont City on the outskirts of Springfield, Ohio, has not been spared the negative effects of over 20,000 Haitians arriving in the area under the Biden-Harris administration, and the growing problems are unsustainable, Tremont City leaders and locals told Blaze Media on Tuesday.Springfield has been thrust into the national spotlight as residents have grown increasingly vocal about the problems Haitians, who now fall under Temporary Protected Status, have wrought on the town, from public safety concerns to housing issues.The outrage reached a fever pitch after 11-year-old Aiden Clark was killed when a Haitian driver allegedly crashed into the school bus Aiden was riding on the first day of school in 2023. Dozens of children on the same bus were injured as well.The tragedy affected the daughter of Mark Sanders. She saw the accident from another bus."[My daughter] sent a me a text that morning, showed a school bus on its top. The text said, 'Dad, there's been a wreck. It's not us. I'm fine. Love you.' She told her counselor later on, because she wouldn't get back on a bus, she didn't want to ride the bus any more. One of the things her counselor was able to share with us is, she said if I drove a bus it would make her feel better about getting back on the bus," he explained.Sanders now drives a school bus for the district to put his daughter at ease."There are things that can be prevented. That guy should not have been in the country. He shouldn't have been driving. He was working for a company, local, that was actually supplied to them," Sanders said.One of the most prevalent issues has been Haitians driving unsafely, usually without a license. Tony Flood, the president of the Tremont City Council, said many Haitians drive through his town to get to their jobs. As a result, the town has seen a dramatic rise in accidents and unsafe driving. Unlike Springfield, Tremont City tows vehicles belonging to Haitians who are pulled over for unsafe driving and do not have a license "because you're not allowed to let an unlicensed driver drive the car, or the village is liable if they get in a wreck," Flood said."This subject has been brought up to [Springfield] many times. ... The city refuses to do that. This is spilling out. They do illegal U-turns all up and down the road. I don't know how many times I've about got hit pulling out of the lot myself," Flood added.Beyond that, Flood said, it is not uncommon to see someone drive on the wrong side of the road: "This is not London, England. We drive on the right side of the road."'[Locals] can't tolerate the attitudes, OK, the pushiness, the inappropriate behavior of the migrants that are in these stores; nobody feels safe.'Sanders revealed he had been hit from behind by a Haitian driver. While the accident totaled the Haitian's car, it just "scratch[ed] the rust off" the hitch of his truck, Sanders claimed.Due to Springfield not towing cars of reckless drivers, Sanders said he believe there has been a "stand-down order" from the city to make Springfield seem more accommodating to Haitians."The accidents we're having around here can be prevented if everybody would get on the same page, all law enforcement, and start towing these vehicles. I know it seems like we're singling people out, but we do it the same no matter what race, nationality, creed, doesn't matter," Tremont City Police Chief Chad Duncan said.Flood's son, who is the mayor of Tremont City, said he is "scared to death" of one day getting the news something has happened to his wife or daughter because they work in downtown Springfield."Any day you get in a car, it's a risk. But now it's even worse, especially if you head that way," Tony Flood II said. "Honestly, it pisses me off that we've allowed it to hit this point."As a result of the high number of accidents in the area, his insurance rate was raised 38%, the younger Flood claimed. It is not uncommon for the men to have motorcycles, he added, but these days that is too much of a risk. Flood II said he doesn't ride his motorcycle any more.The higher risk of road accidents is just one of the reasons residents of Tremont City no longer go to Springfield to shop at the Kroger or Walmart, the elder Flood told Blaze News. Haitians' attitude and behavior towards locals, particularly woman, has been another source of safety concerns."[Locals] can't tolerate the attitudes, OK, the pushiness, the inappropriate behavior of the migrants that are in these stores; nobody feels safe," the elder Flood said. "It's out of control.""We're not against any people. We're against acts and actions and the repercussions of those actions. The people who have been screaming the loudest have been affected the least," Sanders noted.The Springfield Police Department and the city manager's office both declined a request for comment from Blaze News.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

If you’re white, then apparently, you’re a racist — at least according to the anti-racism social justice movement that’s taken knitting circles by storm. The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh set out to discover why that is for his new film, “Am I Racist?” where he goes undercover as a “certified DEI expert” and gets incredible insight from the leaders in the anti-racism industry. He was a little surprised with what he found — but not when it came to the leaders. “I wasn’t really surprised by the grifter types and the things that they said was kind of what I expected them to say,” Walsh tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” “Although, still quite disturbing to sit in the room and hear it.” “The people that are getting sucked into this scam, into this cult, I was a little surprised by the fact that many of them to me seemed more genuine than I thought,” he explains, adding, “They’re true believers.” When he originally started out, he was under the impression that most of what these followers are doing is simply virtue signaling. “I think it’s more like 10% virtue signaling and 90% they believe it,” he explains. “They really think that they need to do this somehow to atone for their white sins. And I guess I was surprised by that.” “Do you think that the 90%, that they are trying to punish themselves or do you think they’re truly hopeful that somehow they’re going to be able to break out of this supposedly white supremacist system and do good for marginalized communities?” Stuckey asks. “I think it’s a little bit of both, but I do think there’s a kind of spiritual component to it,” he responds. “You can only go so far psychoanalyzing these people, but I do think that they walk around with guilt.” They carry a guilt that would otherwise be washed clean through belief in Jesus Christ, but instead it follows them everywhere they go, as they are often not religious. So they’re following a new religion. “If you don’t have that religion, if you’re a secular person, then I think you still have the guilt,” Walsh explains. “But you have no way of understanding it. You have no framework for understanding it. So I think that these kind of anti-racist grifters come along and they say, ‘OK, well, you’re feeling this way, and I’ll tell you why you’re feeling it.’” “‘It’s because you’re white, and here’s all the things you can do with this burden of guilt that you carry to be relieved of it,'" he continues. "Then of course, after they do it, they’re given the bad news that ‘OK, well good job for doing that, but you’re still just as racist as you were before.’” Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A Massachusetts high school girls' field hockey team whose player was seriously injured by a male opponent last fall is forfeiting a game next week against a team with a male player for safety reasons.The squad from Dighton-Rehoboth High School is scratching its game next Tuesday against Somerset Berkley's team, which includes a male player, WJAR-TV reported.'When you mix males into a traditional female sport, the risk of the severity of the injury is much greater.'Readers of Blaze News may recall the viral video showing a male player from Swampscott High School taking a high-powered shot on Dighton-Rehoboth's goal during a playoff game on Nov. 2, 2023.But the ball instead hit a Dighton-Rehoboth player hard in her face and ricocheted far from the point of impact; the injured player fell to her knees and cried out — as did her teammates. A number of them turned their faces away after coming to her aid, and play was halted while the injured female player was treated. She was released from a hospital the next day, but Dighton-Rehoboth Superintendent Bill Runey said she suffered "significant facial and dental injuries," the Sun Chronicle reported.Runey in an interview with WJAR this season said the decision to forfeit next week's game "could potentially impact our chances for qualifying for the playoffs, but there are times where we have to choose safety over victory."The station said the forfeit decision represents the first time the district is going by a new athletic policy passed this year that lets players and coaches opt out of games or forfeit them when opposing teams field players of the opposite sex.When asked what he would say to those who believe the new policy is unfair, Runey told WJAR that detractors are not "seeing the safety concerns we have. When you mix males into a traditional female sport, the risk of the severity of the injury is much greater.”Massachusetts scholastic rules allow males to play sports with females if there are no male teams for that sport available — and vice versa. Indeed, Runey added to the station that the district's new policy also can be used if an all-boys team is scheduled to play a squad with female players. He noted to WJAR that another field hockey game in October also will be forfeited. The station said it reached out to the Somerset Berkley School District but did not hear back.You can view a video report here about the decision to forfeit the game.Anything else?In regard to the male Swampscott player whose shot injured the Dighton-Rehoboth player during the playoff game last season, he scored a goal soon after play resumed. In fact, he scored both goals for Swampscott, giving his team a 2-0 victory and eliminating Dighton-Rehoboth from the tournament.It won't come as a shock, either, that the male Swampscott player reportedly was a Northeastern Conference All-Star and a four-year varsity player and team co-captain, WCVB-TV reported, citing Swampscott Public Schools Athletic Director Kelly Wolff.Amid the controversy last year, a teammate of the injured player wrote a letter of protest to the state's lnter-Scholastic Athletic Association.Kelsey Bain — at the time a Dighton-Rehoboth team captain — said in her letter that "we all witnessed the substantial damage that a male has the ability to cause against a female during a game. How much longer does the MIAA plan on using girls as statistical data points before they realize that boys do not belong in girls’ sports?”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial shipping lanes, faces a de facto blockade by 8th-century Islamist militants who have attacked over 80 ships, containers, and oil tankers in the past year. The U.S. military has failed to respond while our political system and media cover up the most significant acts of naval piracy since the Barbary pirates.Unlike other overseas engagements, we cannot afford to ignore this threat. What’s the point of spending $1 trillion on the military if we can’t stop a group of ragged, skirt-wearing savages from blocking shipping lanes? Whatever happened to “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli”?Our military deployment strategy is fundamentally flawed. We station troops and assets in the worst locations while failing to deploy them where they are needed most.On August 21, Houthi terrorists boarded the Sounion, a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea, and set it on fire. The tanker has reportedly been burning and possibly leaking oil for two weeks, creating a potential disaster that the U.S. government only recently acknowledged. The Pentagon now admits that if the fire isn’t extinguished, the resulting oil spill could be four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster off Alaska in 1989.Meanwhile, Houthi drones and ballistic missiles also attacked the Panama-flagged Blue Lagoon I and the Saudi-flagged Amjad last week. Where is the U.S. Navy, which was designed for crises like this?Nine months ago, the Biden administration announced a 13-nation coalition, “Operation Prosperity Guardian,” to confront the Houthis. Since then, attacks on ships have continued relentlessly, and two Navy SEALs tragically died in the region under questionable circumstances, reportedly drowning in the Red Sea.This situation reflects another consequence of Republicans being out of session in Congress for seven weeks, failing to hold the administration accountable. Republicans return this week with only a few legislative days left and practically no focus on foreign affairs and commerce.The Associated Press reported, “There are no American vessels known to be in the Red Sea at the moment” because the EU has been put in charge of the response to the attack, and “the American military has not been asked and has no role in the cleanup or the towing of the Sounion.”Two weeks later, the U.S. military remains uninvolved in recovering the ship, let alone conducting search-and-destroy missions against the enemy. Nearly 10 months into these attacks, the military has yet to identify the points of origin or central command of the strikes, despite its intelligence and technological capabilities. The military’s lack of response is baffling, especially given its eagerness to fund conflicts around the globe, particularly in Eastern Europe. This indifference to a serious global threat that directly impacts our strategic interests is astonishing.Even before the recent escalation, shipping traffic in the straits exiting the Red Sea had plummeted to alarming levels. According to Port Watch, the seven-day moving average of shipping at the Bab el-Mandeb Strait has dropped by about two-thirds since the attacks began late last year. The daily trade volume through the strait has fallen from 4-5 million metric tons to fewer than 1 million while shipping costs from China to Europe continue to surge. These conditions have persisted for nine months and counting. Where are our Navy and Air Force?The Navy is drafting a plan ominously called “the great reset,” which aims to sideline crews from 17 Navy support ships due to a shortage of qualified sailors. The Navy’s lack of focus on mission readiness and declining morale has left it without enough seamen to relieve those on extended missions.Currently enlisted sailors are forced to serve four-month tours with only one month off in between. “If a vessel requires 100 crew members,” a former Military Sealift Command mariner told USNI News, “only 27 are available on shore to rotate with those at sea.”Our military deployment strategy is fundamentally flawed. We station troops and assets in the worst locations while failing to deploy them where they are needed most.The same trillion-dollar military that struggles to defeat a country with a GDP per capita of $650 also finds itself vulnerable in Syria and Iraq. The Biden administration continues to place our soldiers in isolated bases in western Iraq and eastern Syria to protect against ISIS, even as Shiite militias attack us.Recent attacks in Iraq and Syria have left dozens of U.S. soldiers seriously injured. Despite these assaults, the Biden administration has failed to respond effectively and has not developed a plan to evacuate our troops from these dangerous zones.Consider the tens of thousands of American heroes who have died, been permanently disabled, or suffered lifelong mental illness from the meat-grinder wars in the Middle East over the past two decades. After all that sacrifice, our military still struggles to handle a primitive terror group that disrupts global commerce.For years, Republicans have competed to see how much money they can throw at the military. They’ve turned authorization bills into bidding wars over dollars and cents instead of focusing on the policies that drive the need for funding. Another 5% increase in military spending won’t fix a problem that even the savage Houthis can exploit. We need to think bigger.

Prior to the Black Ops 6 beta, I was quietly optimistic that it would turn out to be one of the best new Call of Duty titles in years. Now that the beta has wrapped, I’m more confident than ever that BO6 is going to be a CoD to remember. It seems I’m not the only one, as Treyarch has just revealed that the Black Ops 6 beta was the biggest in the FPS franchise’s history, which is certainly a good omen for its full launch in a few weeks’ time. Continue reading Black Ops 6 beta smashes several Call of Duty records MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Black Ops 6 release date, Best FPS games, Best Black Ops 6 loadouts

It’s probably fair to say that if you’re into PvP in your MMOs, the Elder Scrolls Online isn’t your first port of call. Generally players dive into Tamriel for the lore, world, quests, and the weird stuff you find along the way, with PvP being a distant consideration. There is a dedicated core of PvPers, however, and they haven’t been eating very well recently. That is all set to change, as update 44 for the game will launch soon and players will be waving goodbye to one PvP mode, and hello to another. Continue reading Next ESO update gives PvP some love with new battlegrounds and modes MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best MMORPGs, Best fantasy games, Best single-player MMOs

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